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...Brazilian factory for manufacturing French Mirage-type supersonic fighters. In Argentina, President Juan Carlos Onganía is considering a similar factory that would turn out French-style AMX tanks. Peru, which recently closed a deal with France for twelve Mirage jets, is building a 14,000-ton tanker in order to gain know-how for producing warships. Meantime, in the past year or two, Latin Americans have been adding steadily to their arsenals. From the U.S., Brazil bought 50 M41 light tanks and Argentina 24 subsonic Douglas A-4B jet fighters. When the U.S. balked at selling its southern...
...March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...
...Israeli war, was flowing at less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape of Good Hope, sorely taxing the world's tanker capacity in the process...
...Much the hardest hit is Britain, which ordinarily gets two-thirds of its oil from Arab sources. The British have started printing gasoline-rationing coupons as "a precautionary measure," last week gave oil companies the go ahead to raise petroleum prices. Meanwhile, oil companies have been chartering every available tanker, lifting freight rates for Persian Gulf-to-Britain shipments to $19 a ton, a 350% increase in less than a month...
...Charlotte Ford Niarchos," she wrote in her first column, "has been schlepping around the Greek islands with her ex-husband, Tanker King Stavros Niarchos, on his yacht Creole. This has been the most romantic divorce. Remember how sticky it was when they were married? Charlotte hardly ever saw Stavros, and the only thing she had to remember him by was her 61-carat diamond ring-and the baby, of course...